As some of you may know, I love tortoises... a lot. In the midst of painting all the other paintings I'm working on, I took a little time for some 'just for fun' tortoise paintings, each in 2.5x3.5 (collectible ACEO format).
Friday, April 12, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Custom 11x14 Portrait Painting
The most recent custom portrait I painted was especially fun for me to create: Little Boo is such a gorgeous child, and I got to play with colors!
Because there have been quite a few inquiries lately: I am currently not accepting new custom clients. I still have so many clients on my wait list... I am working very hard to finish paintings for everyone, and once the list is at a more manageable number, I will accept a few new custom clients. I will announce this on my Facebook artist page, - so please make sure you have "liked" me!
Rory from Chocolate Hair/ Vanilla Care approached me early last year about creating a custom painting of her daughter, Boo. She patiently waited until it was her turn, and once the painting was done, honored me with a special feature post on her wonderful blog! If you would like to read it, the link is HERE.
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| Custom 11x14 Portrait of little Boo |
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| Detail view of Boo's face in my painting |
Friday, March 8, 2013
Work in Progress... little sneak peek!
Here is a little excerpt of the custom portrait painting I am creating for my client...
I'm showing you in black/white, since the colors of the underpainting are all in purples and reds and yellows and magenta...
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| Custom 11x14 painting of gorgeous little Boo |
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Hair Time Art ...T-shirts!
I am so excited to show off the brand new, fresh off the press Hair Time shirt! I finally found a company that was able to print them in full digital vinyl color, and let me just say, they look FANTASTIC.
If you would like to purchase one for the special little curly-haired girl in your life, please swing by my Etsy shop, www.mossyrockdesigns.etsy.com to order one!
Did you know that my friend's daughter M (who is proudly wearing her new Hair Time shirt) was the original inspiration for the Hair Time paintings? Her mother graciously took an afternoon to show me proper detangling, care, and braiding of M's beautiful natural curly hair.
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| M modeling her new Hair Time shirt |
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| The Hair Time shirt |
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| M in her new Hair Time shirt! |
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Custom 5x7 portrait
I really love it when clients send me a FUN source photo. This piece was commissioned by a wonderful Grandma, and shows her grand-daughter. I just LOVE that big laughing smile!
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| Custom 5x7 portrait |
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Just for fun - Indian Star Tortoise
When I'm this busy painting custom pieces, it is sometimes fun for me to paint a few pieces just for fun. This little Indian Star Tortoise is one such 'just for fun' painting.
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| Indian Star Tortoise |
Custom Portrait set - Sisters
Painting these three beautiful sisters was a lot of fun. They have such beautiful smiles! Their mother commissioned me to paint these portraits: one large 11x14 of the three of them, for her to keep, and then a 5x7 of each of them individually, to give to each girl as a gift.
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| Custom 11x14 Portrait - Sisters |
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| Custom 5x7 |
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| Custom 5x7 |
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| Custom 5x7 |
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Just-for-fun tortoise ACEOs
The past weeks have FLOWN by. Between mailing Christmas orders, celebrating Christmas and New Years 2013, school stuff, friend stuff, family stuff, sick kids etc. I haven't had as much time as I would have liked to paint.
I am working really hard to finish several custom portrait paintings right now. The formats of the paintings resulted in some free space in the margins. Since I hate wasting paper, I had fun painting some little 2.5x3.5 tortoise ACEOs in there. :)
Happy new Year 2013!
Monday, December 17, 2012
Custom 11x14 painting
It has been a bit more difficult these past few weeks to find time to paint, but I did finish another custom piece of a darling set of 3 little siblings.
This family looks a little bit like ours will some day - except that they have two big sisters and a little brother adopted from Ethiopia... and we will have two big brothers and a little sister adopted from Ethiopia. I am SO excited to paint my kids together when we bring little sis' home!
I am pretty sure that painting children is one of my most favorite things to do in the whole world!
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| Custom 11x14 painting |
I am pretty sure that painting children is one of my most favorite things to do in the whole world!
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